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Student Pilot

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  1. Those are interesting, the Newcastle one especially
  2. Depends on the individual aircraft, all different
  3. Try flying into Williamtown
  4. Trump is a lying cheating con man. He doesn't tell untruths he lies.........................................he has divided the US more, spewing hate and telling lies, he also lies. How can you lot defend him?
  5. Guido made a replica of that in Toowoomba
  6. Why did it take half an hour? As soon as you reached cruising height you would have checked GS on the GPS. Al this angst over a couple of knots or 250ml an hour difference in fuel flow seems unwarranted. Not as if you have a company on your back to minimize fuel flow and economy for maximum profits. The object is to go for a jaunt and enjoy the flight. If you constantly scanning graphs and charts to get optimum fuel flow and listening out for possible catastrophic failure about to appear your beloved pax might start to worry about your imminent demise instead of salivating over the seaside menu. You must be a joy to fly with 😁
  7. Or you could go on the ques you already have such as: Noise, slower you are the less noise Control pressure, slower you are the less pressure Control efficiency, slower you are less effective Angle of attack, position of the nose compared to normal flight All these things add up as total aircraft response, one alone can indicate All these things vary from aircraft to aircraft to some degree, to know the aircraft your flying is very important. If you only fly half a dozen times a year you are going to be more than rusty(Apologies to Rusty, I don't mean you 😁). A switched on experienced instructor should be able to teach these things. I do think a simple AA indicator in your line of sight would help you recognize all the other things that indicate slow flight. I'm not saying totally avoid looking at your airspeed indicator just listen to what the aircraft is telling you. After some practice you can approach without an airspeed indicator safely. Fire away!!!!!
  8. Of the estimated possible 400,000,000,000 airstrips in the world surely some sort of area should be included with the pic?
  9. He said the problem was not watching his airspeed so he stalled. It is important to know all the other pointers to airspeed, safe flight without an airspeed indicator is possible.
  10. You can land just as short with a tail low wheeler as a three pointer. Land and roll up to taxiway, no need to land on the end of the strip, pick where you are going to land and land there. A point where you will roll to the taxiway without heavy braking is where I usually land. Why would anybody be scared of doing a 3 point landing? Watch anybody who flies tailwheels for a living, they land tail low wheeler. That's not because they are scared of 3 pointers but usually to spare the tailwheel any grief and extra wear.
  11. Correct Captain Gazza, Sully has everyones respect. Anybody who defends or tries to legitimise Trump has no credibility
  12. Has he lost credibility now he's shaved his mustache off?
  13. Lots of theory here folks. Ultimately it's how you handle what wind there is, I have seen the likes of 182's and 185's landed in winds way in excess of quoted crosswind. Know your own and the aircraft capabilities.
  14. The most basic form of flying for the most enjoyment
  15. I have been flying 40+ years, still have trouble at times finding the ground
  16. At 30+ million a piece? 6000 litres is the max load. That's 2 X 802's and at 3 million for a new 802. There are something like 60 X 802's on fires in Oz, all privately owned.
  17. Looks to have literally dropped out of the sky, the wooden machines go to kindling when a hit
  18. Yes, it all seems to have got into a urinating contest about who knows the most about stuff. Don't know about yoo flying dog but I just like to fly, keep straight most of the time to get where I want to.
  19. Cochraine? Has to be a Lockheed?
  20. I think the aircraft in England are originally powered, the yanks put twin row Wrights in them
  21. Always used to leave that one off if a DCA/DOT/CASA inspection was due. They used to fuss around and make a big thing of it saying it was essential for aircraft operation. One chap gave me a big lecture about how I should take more care. The aircraft was facing 230 the compass was indicating 330, he noticed the compass deviation card wasn't here but didn't look at the compass ? I admit I neglected to point it out to him. He snagged me and sent out a list of things he said needed attention. One of which he claimed was a cracked exhaust, I knew it wasn't. After taking it off inspecting and using dye penetrant there were no cracks, another $300 spent.
  22. Looks like when he went inverted he pulled back and it flicked, he kept pressure on with full back stick it continued to rotate till it hit the ground
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